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Did any of the canon cast ever saw the security squad in action before? In canon that is.

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"You cannot be bad at watching a movie. You cannot be bad at listening to an album.
...But you can be bad at playing a videogame, and the game will punish you and deny you access to the rest of the videogame."

And I'm thinking to have the confrontation between him and a canon member...

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"You cannot be bad at watching a movie. You cannot be bad at listening to an album.
...But you can be bad at playing a videogame, and the game will punish you and deny you access to the rest of the videogame."

Me and Zero(If I understood his post right) were going on about how the Academy's security squad should be more... professional that simply "being there".

Then there's me thinking of toning down the "Against IS" thing.

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"You cannot be bad at watching a movie. You cannot be bad at listening to an album.
...But you can be bad at playing a videogame, and the game will punish you and deny you access to the rest of the videogame."

Following canon, maybe. Not like they're ordinary enemies that cannot bypass radar without some... special assistance.

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"You cannot be bad at watching a movie. You cannot be bad at listening to an album.
...But you can be bad at playing a videogame, and the game will punish you and deny you access to the rest of the videogame."

Hence why I portray them as at least being able to fend off attacks in Athena.

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"You cannot be bad at watching a movie. You cannot be bad at listening to an album.
...But you can be bad at playing a videogame, and the game will punish you and deny you access to the rest of the videogame."

'Mountain breaker' packet is heat diffusion cannon, turning compressed air into visible gas/plasma/whatever. It's main purpose is to make rapid fire mode more powerful, it also added another pair of cannon (making 4 in total)

I imagine actual radiation/heat weapon is forbidden, though not very sure about laser. (It's used in both ST and TLR Stratos)

EDIT: Well, Proioxis (sp?) from Athena series, and it's predecessor Minerva Custom can use heat based weaponry, and most, if not all the technology is derived from first generation I.S., do note that this very unit is designed by anti I.S. organization so rules may not apply.

EDIT2: Since it's always stated that energy weapon, energy barrier and thruster DO drain I.S. battery (though at slower rate rate than Absolute defense), does this mean that the solid state weapon such as guns and missiles also have limited ammo?

Basically anything that can hurt/torture the pilot directly in battle is banned. In my personal interpretation (which mean not necessarily fit canon), it's along the line of "Radioactive, electric surge, chemical, and biological weapon".

Note that Radioactive there also cover for gamma/X-ray projector and neutron cannon/bomb. While plasma-coated blunt weapon is basically a gigantic taser in nature, they are exempted because it's simply unable to torture pilot. (it'll be lethal by default by sheer kinetic energy alone)

EDIT: Though I prefer the idea about blunt weapons are anti-beam coated, which works wondrously against normal barrier, though not as much as beam saber or plasma weapon.

I'm still conflicted about including heat-based weapon in the ban list, since laser is practically just that.

There are more weapon that is tournament-legal yet can be used for torture (such as Rin's air cannon or Laura's cable launcher), which leaves things to pilot's ethic as well.

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As for 'unlimited ammo' thing, the only things implied about is that energy-to-matter conversion is one way trip. It took more than single day to repair damaged I.S. that lose it's parts, which mean it'll took some time to fill the magazines (Probably more than 10 minutes with the I.S. shut down). This means that while technically they can generate ammo indefinitely, doing so will took quite a time (especially if your I.S. is active) and I.S. practically still carries limited ammo per battle. I can see the usage of spare magazine except for internally-loaded weapon such as Shotgun or missile launcher.

About the ammo and comparing it with IS repair. The length of time is dependent on level of damage. Thus far the repairs which have required whole days are Cecilia's and Rin's IS. If memory serves me right, their units were totally scrap at that point. If the mass is something as negligible as ammo, it's not unfathomable that ammo can be generated in minutes, not fifteen, maybe about 1-3? pending on the bullet size and structural complexity.

Yeah, that's a possibility. All in all, it's the application that's matter (Because Yukihira is tournament illegal and yet still allowed to be used)

Also yes, in my fanon it's affected by the total amount of mass lost as well as the complexity. For example, between 3x30 boxed rounds and 90 linked rounds, the later is longer to generate because you can just store the empty boxes back to be reloaded whereas links are disposed into cluster of data to be recycled, similar to spent shell.

Do remember that again, it's implied that when I.S. is active, and even more so during battle condition, all conversion/maintenance process is much slower simply because the core doesn't generate enough energy to do just that. Again, ammo recycling in battle simply unfeasible unless you have Akatsubaki's hax OOA.